PedroAzule
Newbie
A helpful person applied beeswax polish to my accordion, including the keys. It looks great, but the keys are sticky and get very sticky as the beeswax warms up. Does anyone have a way to remove it?
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When I have a wax spill I always use a paper towel and "wasbenzine" (a cleaning agent). It is very effective for removing a thin layer of wax and does not hurt the celluloid key tops.
Beeswax polish is not very suitable for polishing an accordion. I always use the polishing materials I get from Carini (www.carinidena.it).
Beeswax polish is not very suitable for polishing an accordion. I always use the polishing materials I get from Carini (www.carinidena.it).
Thanks for the term. I never knew the English term for our "wasbenzine". Will use "naphtha" from now on (if I can remember it with my old brain...)
Dingo40
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boxplayer4000
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Lemon juice will melt wax as well.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
Maybe so, but unlikely to do your accordion much good!
KiwiSqueezer
Active member
Terminological inexactitude... a perennial problem!
If you look at the Wikipedia page for 'naptha', you'll discover that the term covers a multitude of substances - it's a 'dustbin' term - but nevertheless carelessly and widely used Stateside. May I suggest that, when someone here uses a particular substance, they give its name in a much detail as they can? Then those of us in different parts of the world can translate it into what is (or is not...) available to us, locally.
Specific to 'wasbenzine' - please don't anyone use 'real' benzine mistakenly. It'll do the job, but it's horribly nasty stuff, and a mutagen.
And another bugbear - when describing glues, please don't say, for instance, 'Bostik', because that's just a brand name, and Bostik have a large range of products, with different names in different markets; it's as unhelpful as saying 'Ford' or 'Audi' when supposedly identifying a specific model of auto.
If you look at the Wikipedia page for 'naptha', you'll discover that the term covers a multitude of substances - it's a 'dustbin' term - but nevertheless carelessly and widely used Stateside. May I suggest that, when someone here uses a particular substance, they give its name in a much detail as they can? Then those of us in different parts of the world can translate it into what is (or is not...) available to us, locally.
Specific to 'wasbenzine' - please don't anyone use 'real' benzine mistakenly. It'll do the job, but it's horribly nasty stuff, and a mutagen.
And another bugbear - when describing glues, please don't say, for instance, 'Bostik', because that's just a brand name, and Bostik have a large range of products, with different names in different markets; it's as unhelpful as saying 'Ford' or 'Audi' when supposedly identifying a specific model of auto.
KiwiSqueezer
Active member
Oh, good grief! I meant to warn, of course, about 'benzene', the famous C6H6 ring molecule, not 'benzine'. I blame my age - old enough to know how, too old to do...
I have an irritating ability, or handicap: typos, etc. tend to leap out of the page at me. I grumble about the lack of proof-reading, misspelling, errant apostrophes, etc. that is so common, nowadays. But, of course, I'm oblivious to my own mistakes...
Just to add to the confusion, I now discover that there's something called 'petroleum benzine' (sic), probably what 'wasbenzine' is, which also isn't the unique chemical compound 'benzene'. It seems that you can bung any name you like on a mix of light fractions of petroleum distillate, flog it as a solvent, fuel, magical do-all, and an answer to a maiden's prayer, and it's accepted by everyone except miserable pedants like myself.
I have an irritating ability, or handicap: typos, etc. tend to leap out of the page at me. I grumble about the lack of proof-reading, misspelling, errant apostrophes, etc. that is so common, nowadays. But, of course, I'm oblivious to my own mistakes...
Just to add to the confusion, I now discover that there's something called 'petroleum benzine' (sic), probably what 'wasbenzine' is, which also isn't the unique chemical compound 'benzene'. It seems that you can bung any name you like on a mix of light fractions of petroleum distillate, flog it as a solvent, fuel, magical do-all, and an answer to a maiden's prayer, and it's accepted by everyone except miserable pedants like myself.
